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Mayim Bialik’s guide to embracing the new Jewish year

If you’re also ready for a fresh start, the actress and podcast host has some timely advice for shifting your focus.

By Mayim Bialik September 14, 2023 4:31 pm

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Change is hard and threatening. That’s why we need Rosh Hashanah.

The first female Orthodox rabbi remembers her experiences as an immigrant and the resistance to her ordination.

September 13, 2023 1:30 pm

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Unetaneh Tokef, the High Holidays’ roll call of ruin, is heartbreakingly real for the Ukrainian Jews I’ve gotten to know

The difference between “who shall live and who shall die” can depend on the aid Ukrainian Jews receive, writes a JDC staffer who traveled to Ukraine this year.

September 12, 2023 5:00 pm

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How ‘This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared’ became a High Holidays classic

By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 10, 2023 6:45 am

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How a religious revival fed the demise of the Midtown kosher deli

By Ted Merwin September 7, 2023 1:14 pm

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Israeli Hebrew didn’t kill Yiddish. As a new exhibit in NYC shows, it gave it a new nest to live in.

By Ghil‘ad Zuckermann September 5, 2023 5:18 pm

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A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family

By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 3, 2023 6:45 am

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Fighting society’s disintegration is a group effort. Just ask Moses.

By Rabbi Justus Baird September 1, 2023 10:18 am

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One Palestinian, one Jew, and two very different impressions of ‘Golda’

By Mira Sucharov August 31, 2023 4:30 pm

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‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ is about Jews. So why is the nicest character Christian?

By Keren David August 31, 2023 11:11 am

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